Research

"il labarinto" (1752)

Napoli - IT - Museo Capella Sansevero particolare pavimento alchemico

Visual Resources : Image Resources at Alfred

Web, Moving Image, Audio, Software, Ebook and Text Archive

The Metropolitan Museum of Art : Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

MetPublications : Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications with Full Online Text

Tilings Encyclopedia

In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings.

Arabic / Islamic Geometry

A background to two-dimensional design, geometry and pattern

CHALLENGING CRAFT

A Sublime Congestion:  Colonizing Architecture

By Neil Forrest 

 "This paper asserts that ornament is a legitimate artistic framework for contemporary experience..."

Victoria And Albert Museum:  Tiles

Gladding McBean

Boston Valley Terra Cotta

http://www.bostonvalley.com

Some old PDF books to browse or download:

Ornamental design, embracing The Anatomy of pattern 

by Lewis F. Day

Floriated ornament a series of thirty-one designs

Old English pattern books of the metal trades

Pattern Design A Book For Students Treating In A Practical Way Of The Anatomy Planning And Evolution Of Repeated Ornament (1933)

The Grammar of Ornament (1856)

Nature And Ornament : Nature The Raw Material Of Design (1909)